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Otto G Dague
By-2nd Nat Gas & Oil Co.
50 gaslamps for illuminating
Clairport street, for $1.60 per
year. Contract made middle
of June, anno for 5 years.
Gas is secured now from well
on north of Clary Creek in
west sidey creek, Drilled about
18 years ago, 920 ft. Need then
gaspe line to Clairports?
This will have been reduced
to $15 a month when taken
holding by Otto Dague.
Water pumped off the well at the
grist mill, which has been dead
2 years, about 1700 ft down the
river, in the tanks. Water
Drilled and cleaned out
now clear to the pressure.
The best result was to increase
the flow of the well at the
mouth of Clary Creek, while
now produces enough to
supply $160 a monthly
gas in place of $15- co
at first.
They have just cleaned out
& re-cored the well at the
Oile Factory drilled in 1891,
dead over 2 years, so that
they seem have plenty of gas
probably enough to run the
entire plant, but at least
enough to fire 2 boilers.